Country United States Primary fuel Bituminous coal Nameplate capacity 739 MW Owner Kentucky Utilities | Commission date 1969 Cooling source Dix River Phone +1 859-748-5607 | |
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Location Mercer County, near Harrodsburg, Kentucky Address 815 Dix Dam Rd, Harrodsburg, KY 40330, USA Similar Ghent Generating Station, Dix Dam, Trimble County Generatin, Big Sandy Power Plant, John Sherman Cooper P | ||
The E. W. Brown Generating Station is a coal-fired power plant owned and operated by Kentucky Utilities near Harrodsburg, Kentucky. It lies even closer to the small city of Burgin.
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In 2014, the state Public Service Commission authorized the construction of a solar photovoltaic array at the E. W. Brown Generating Station. The array will be the first utility-scale solar project in the state, and will be capable of providing 10 megawatts of power alongside the fossil fuel based generators already operating onsite. The Kentucky chapter of the Sierra Club supported the solar project, but had concerns that the projected costs of the solar installation would become too high. The utilities operating the facility, the Sierra Club and the Kentucky Industrial Utilities Customers signed an agreement under which competitive bidding will be used on contracts to design and build the solar array.